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Thumbs up: To RC Willey in Riverdale and the store’s employees for giving the Family Counseling Service of Northern Utah office a much needed facelift. The effort started with the donation of a sofa, but grew into a service project for the store and its employees.

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To Joelle Beard, of Willard, who swam the English Channel this month. She is the first Utah woman to successfully navigate her way across the channel.To the handful of college students who took advantage of the glitch to change grades in classes. One raised the grades of everyone in a class, while another chose to lower the grade of a classmate. Regardless, the schools know who the culprits were and were able to change all the grades back. To the majority of college students who quickly logged off the Utah Education Network when they realized a computer glitch caused by a software malfunction had given them teacher-level access to grades and other data. To New York City for banning supersized sodas at venues. While the intent is a noble one of trying to curb obesity, the action is a blatant government intrusion into people’s lives.To Sunset Mayor Chad Bangerter, owner of CBR Inc., for donating labor and a special cleaner to remove the spray paint from the DARE car. To whoever vandalized the home of an area law enforcement officer and spray-painted graffiti on a Davis County DARE vehicle. These wanton acts of destruction were obviously meant to target police. We hope the perps are caught and punished.To hundreds of Roy kids who spent their Saturday recently planting trees, pulling weeds and cleaning up garbage along trails, at city offices and Roy West Park. The annual service project is a partnership between the city and area churches and youth leaders. To Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality. Recent audits show that the agency relies too heavily on regulated companies and federal agencies to ensure Utah’s waste control laws are being followed.